Senior Category Data Analyst

Holland & Barrett
Nuneaton
4 months ago
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At Holland & Barrett (H&B), we want to empower everyone to live healthier, happier lives. With over 150 years of experience, we're the largest health & wellness retailer in Europe and a globally trusted brand. Our ambition is to become the world's most trusted wellness partner, chosen by over 100 million people worldwide. Our Analytics organisation is structured into five verticals: four embedded analytics areas aligned to key business functions, and a central Business Intelligence team focused on cross-functional reporting and performance enablement. Together with our Data Engineering and Data Science colleagues, we make data a strategic lever to achieve H&B's goals. As a Senior Category Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll support one of our flagship categories: VHMS, Food & Sports, or Beauty. You'll act as a strategic analytics partner to stakeholders across Commercial, Trading, Category, and Digital, delivering insights that influence pricing, promotions, product performance, and customer value.


Role Key Responsibilities

  • Lead analytics delivery for supplier performance, commercial contribution, and terms agreement tracking.
  • Partner with Supplier Terms, Category, and Commercial stakeholders to evaluate deal outcomes and supplier impact.
  • Provide ecommerce insights and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Build dashboards in Metabase to monitor supplier-level performance, agreement effectiveness, and compliance.
  • Create analytics that demonstrate commercial optimisation opportunities & targets.
  • Write clean, efficient SQL to analyse data across trading, rebate, promotional, and category-level metrics.
  • Deliver insights that support negotiations, supplier scorecards, and performance reviews.
  • Own analysis of agreement value, rebate accuracy, and deal profitability.
  • Contribute to development of tools that track supplier performance over time and model commercial scenarios.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts, and Supplier Performance teams to deliver end-to-end data products.
  • Mentor mid-level analysts and help strengthen capability across the Commercial Ops analytics team.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, BigQuery, Matillion, and Retool.
  • SQL expertise: Confident writing advanced queries, transforming complex data, and optimising performance.
  • Commercial acumen: Deep understanding of category and trading levers such as margin, pricing, and promotional ROI.
  • Stakeholder leadership: Comfortable working with Heads of and Directors in Commercial, Trading, and Category teams.
  • Communication: Explains complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences and adapts insight to the business context.
  • Delivery ownership: Independently leads high-impact projects from discovery through to implementation.
  • Visualisation skills: Designs clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or experience with equivalent tools like Tableau, Looker, PowerBI).
  • Team contribution: Mentors others, shares knowledge, and strengthens team delivery through feedback and collaboration.
  • Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Engineering, and 4-6 years of experience in analytics-preferably with exposure to commercial, retail, or trading environments.

Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits

  • Health Cash Plan
  • Life Assurance
  • Incentive Scheme
  • Virtual GP
  • Private Medical
  • FREE at-home blood test kit
  • Holiday Purchase option
  • Pension Contribution
  • Access to 'Wellhub' with gyms, studios and wellbeing apps

Discounts & Savings

  • 25% Colleague Discount with FREE Next Day Delivery
  • Exclusive Discounts from a wide range of partners
  • GBP/???50 Annual Product Allowance to spend in store


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